Sensory & Interactive

This pathway is designed for students with highly complex physical,
learning and medical needs working largely at pre entry level. Students will be
based in small tutor groups with an emphasis on multi-disciplinary and
integrated delivery of the curriculum. There is extensive multi-positional
learning, providing opportunities for maintaining and developing the student’s physical
skills, posture and mobility. A wide range of therapeutic and educational
opportunities are provided through which the student may consolidate and
further develop skills. Speech and language therapy, physiotherapy and
occupational therapy are embedded into an individual’s programme and are
addressed, not just by the specific therapist, but by the whole team supporting
the student. Individual targets are set by this multi-disciplinary team,
following a detailed assessment process (using the IMPACTs assessment tool) and
are celebrated with students through achievement songs and activities.

Students will receive a high level of specialist support where learning
will be undertaken in a range of settings to expand the horizons of the student
and work holistically on their development, involving sensory and experiential
activities. There will be an emphasis on developing intentional communication,
using symbols as required and developing the student’s ability to express and
understand their own wants and needs as independently as possible. Students
will be supported to become as empowered as possible to make decisions about
their own life alongside developing a greater understanding of themselves as a
person.

Bespoke timetables enable a
student’s needs to be met in the most appropriate format. Sessions delivered
include, for example, individual tutorial work, communication through music,
intensive interaction, community inclusion, interactive literacy, domestic
skills, enterprise options, leisure enrichment options, mobility skills and
multisensory communication. If appropriate, students may work towards units
from the OCR Life and Living suite of qualifications.

Students in this group will normally move onto
residential living environments with opportunities to maintain their interests
in the community.